22 Year Old Jordanian Bride Victim of Honor Killing

Brutal murder for the sake of honor. Women continue to be butchered at the hand of family members.

"Six charged in ‘honour’ crime" from AFP:

AMMAN: A Jordanian prosecutor has charged six men with murder over the ‘honour’ killing of a female relative suspected of having a pre-marriage affair with her husband, a local newspaper reported yesterday.

The 22-year-old woman was allegedly shot dead just two weeks after her wedding by her uncle, who claimed he was “cleansing the family honour”, according to the English-language Jordan Times
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She was the ninth woman reportedly murdered in a so-called honour crime since the beginning of the year, it said.

The 38-year-old uncle was charged with premeditated murder and five others, including the woman’s father, were charged with complicity, the paper said, quoting an unnamed official source.

The victim had filed a complaint against the suspects after they threatened to kill her, but she later dropped the charges on her father’s request, the official said.

“Before entering the mayor’s office to drop the charges, her father lured her to a side road... one of her uncles drew a gun and shot her repeatedly until he made sure she was dead,” according to the source.